HB 1075  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2024 SESSION

24-2338

02/05

 

HOUSE BILL 1075

 

AN ACT relative to abolishing daylight saving time.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Horrigan, Straf. 10

 

COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill provides that New Hampshire shall exempt itself from daylight saving time when Maine and Massachusetts also exempt themselves from daylight saving time.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2338

02/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to abolishing daylight saving time.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Standard Time.  Amend RSA 21:36 to read as follows:

21:36 Standard Time.  The standard time within the state[, except as hereinafter provided,] shall be based on the mean astronomical time of the seventy-fifth degree of longitude west from Greenwich, known and designated by the federal statute as "Eastern Standard Time." [At 2 o'clock ante-meridian of the second Sunday in March of each year, the standard time in this state shall be advanced one hour, at 2 o'clock ante-meridian of the first Sunday in November of each year, the standard time in this state shall, by the retarding of one hour, be made to coincide with the astronomical time hereinbefore described as Eastern Standard Time, so that between the second Sunday in March at 2 o'clock ante-meridian and the first Sunday in November at 2 o'clock ante-meridian in each year the standard time in this state shall be one hour in advance of the United States Standard Time.] In all laws, statutes, orders, decrees, rules, and regulations relating to the time of performance by any officer or department of this state, or of any county, city, town, or district thereof, or relating to the time in which any rights accrue or determine, or within which any act shall or shall not be performed by any person subject to the jurisdiction of this state, or of any county, city, town, or district thereof, and in all contracts or choses in action made or to be performed in this state, it shall be understood and intended that the time shall be as set forth in this section. The state, and all political subdivisions of the state, acting under the exemption provisions of the Uniform Time Act of 1966, shall be exempt from the provisions of that law that established the advancement of time, known as "daylight saving time".

2  Contingency.  Section 1 of this act shall take effect on the first date of January in the first year following or coinciding with the effective date of exemption from daylight saving time in the states of Maine and Massachusetts.

3  Effective Date.  

I.  Section 1 of this act shall take effect as provided in section 2 of this act.

II.  The remainder of this act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.